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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)

submitted 2 days ago by TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Dude i had a 240 gb ssd 14 years old. And the SMART is telling me that has 84% life yet. This was a main OS drive and was formatted multiple times. Literally data is going to be discontinued before this disk is going to die. Stop spreading fake news. Realistically how many times you fill a SSD in a typical scenario?

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

As per my previous comment, I had /var, /var/log, /home/me/.cache, among many other frequently written directories on the SSD since 2019. SSDs have fewer write cycles than HDDs, it's not "fake news".

"However, SSDs are generally more expensive on a per-gigabyte basis and have a finite number of write cycles, which can lead to data loss over time."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive)

I'm not really sure why exactly mine it's coil whining, it happens occasionally and nothing else happens aside from the high-pitched sound, but it's coil whining.

[–] prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

How the hell a SSD can coil whine... Without mobile parts lol... Second, realistically for a normal user, it's probable that SSD is going to last more than 10 years. We aren't talking about intensive data servers here. We are talking about The hardcorest of the gamers for example, normal people. And of course, to begin with HDDs haven't a write limit lol. They fail because of its mechanical parts. Finally, cost benefit. The M.2 I was suggesting is $200 buck for 4Tb. Cmon it's not the end of the world and you multiply speeds... By 700...